Burkina Faso investigates B.C. mine company after flood leaves 8 trapped underground | CBC News

Vancouver-based Trevali Mining Corp. suspended operations at its West African Perkoa mine on April 16, when heavy rainfall caused flash floods and left eight workers missing underground. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, it said on Monday.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burkina-faso-zinc-mine-trevali-vancouver-bc-1.6438261

Think Least of Death | 4Columns

It’s not easy, living. Our human existence is an ongoing experience of what Baruch Spinoza called servitudo (bondage): we are constantly, despite ourselves and our best efforts, at the mercy of forces greater than us, subject to events and encounters that cause emotions we’d rather not feel. As the great British thinker Kate Bush once put it, “Just being alive—it can really hurt.”
— Read on 4columns.org/ft/think-least-of-death

HEADLINES

science affirms indigenous knowledge
        after refuting dismissing destroying burning caging it
for centuries
    commodification to follow

more bombs less food!
fight the good fight

why are children suffering?
experts offer boilerplate

planet becoming unlivable
GDP up 1%! hip hip hooray!!